All you have to do to participate is dig through your pantry and gather up some non-perishable items — no expired items and avoid glass containers, please — and bag them up. Then simply put them by your mailbox before the carrier comes.

Of course, nobody’s going to stop you from heading to the grocery store to pick up a few extra items to donate.

The food will be distributed to local food banks, so your donations are helping people in your community.

If you want to add pet food or toiletries to your food donation, the carriers will pick them up as well. The food banks will pass them along to where they need to go.

Monetary donations are welcome, too. Just make out a check to your local food bank, put it in an envelope, write “Letter Carriers’ Food Drive” on the envelope and leave it by or in your mailbox.

Homage Brewing, which is setting up shop in downtown Pomona, recently began its fundraising campaign and is about a third of the way to its $12,000 goal.

Perks for contributing range from a set of pin-back buttons to creating your own beer at the brewery. There are also T-shirts, growlers, glassware, totes, exclusive and private parties, and even a chance to tour San Diego breweries with Homage’s owners.

The campaign ends May 27 and, as with other Kickstarter campaigns, will only be funded if the goal is reached.